RLLMUK's FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2013 - RESULTS!

[ngchol]

Thanks, as always, to everyone who took time to think about and post their list for this year. It was really, really close for first place this time…

So, here are the results! A 1st place vote scored 10 points, 2nd place 9, down to 10th place scoring 1 point.

I've posted the whole list here - there were 222 albums voted for in all (287 last year). If enough people want to query the results or look at the raw data, then I'll upload the spreadsheet.

I usually miss some near-duplicates or votes where someone got the artist and the title the wrong way round, so please feel free to point out any inconsistencies if it affects anything in the top 50.

Just for reference (I always look them up when I post the results), you can find results from previous years by using the albumsoftheyear tag.

Anyway, here we go…

[EDIT 6/1 - Duplicates of Yeezus combined, moving it up to third place]

Rank - Artist - Album [Total points] [Total number of votes]
1 - Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest [78] [12]
2 - Jon Hopkins - Immunity [76] [11]
3 - Kanye West - Yeezus [53] [7]
4 - Arctic Monkeys - AM [51] [7]
5 - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories [50] [8]
6 - Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe [43] [8]
7 - National - Trouble Will Find Me [39] [6]
8 - Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork [38] [6]
9 - Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City [35] [5]
10 - Arcade Fire - Reflektor [31] [6]
11 - Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels [30] [5]
11 - Deafheaven - Sunbather [30] [4]
11 - Disclosure - Settle [30] [4]
11 - Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold [30] [4]
15 - London Grammar - If You Wait [29] [4]
16 - David Bowie - The Next Day [28] [4]
16 - Mogwai - Les Revenants OST [28] [4]
16 - My Bloody Valentine - MBV [28] [4]
19 - Holden - The Inheritors [27] [4]
20 - Black Sabbath - 13 [26] [4]
20 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away [26] [4]
20 - Clutch - Earth Rocker [26] [3]
23 - Burial - Rival Dealer EP [25] [5]
23 - Julia Holter - Loud City Song [25] [3]
25 - Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus [24] [4]
26 - Pusha T - My Name Is My Name [21] [3]
27 - Earl Sweatshirt - Doris [19] [4]
27 - Alter Bridge - Fortress [19] [3]
27 - Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience (Vol. 1) [19] [3]
27 - Gustavo Santaolalla - The Last of Us [19] [2]
31 - Drenge - Drenge [18] [3]
31 - Cult of Luna - Vertikal [18] [2]
31 - Lorde - Pure Heroine [18] [2]
34 - Danny Brown - Old [17] [3]
35 - Fat Freddy's Drop - Blackbird [16] [2]
36 - Darkside - Psychic [15] [2]
36 - Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt [15] [2]
38 - Carcass - Surgical Steel [14] [3]
38 - Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer [14] [2]
38 - Knife - Shaking The Habitual [14] [2]
41 - Matias Aguayo - The Visitor [12] [2]
42 - Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth [11] [3]
42 - A$AP Rocky - Long Live A$AP [11] [2]
42 - Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin [11] [2]
45 - Annie - A&R EP [10] [1]
45 - Broken Hope - Omen of Disease [10] [1]
45 - Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions Vol. 1 (2013 physical release) [10] [1]
45 - Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Descension [10] [1]
45 - Congo Natty - Jungle Revolution [10] [1]
45 - Daniel Avery - Drone Logic [10] [1]
45 - Fluorescent Grey - Ambiente [10] [1]
45 - Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle [10] [1]
45 - Linkin Park - Recharged [10] [1]
45 - Petre Inspirescu - Fabric 68 [10] [1]
45 - Safety Fire - Mouth of Swords [10] [1]
45 - These New Puritans - Field of Reeds [10] [1]
45 - Yo La Tengo - Fade [10] [1]
58 - John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts [9] [3]
58 - Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap [9] [2]
58 - Fall Out Boy - Save Rock & Roll [9] [2]
58 - MGMT - MGMT [9] [2]
58 - u-Ziq - Chewed Corners [9] [2]
58 - Cian Ciaran - They Are Nothing Without Us [9] [1]
58 - Crash of Rhinos - Knots [9] [1]
58 - Dead Daisies - The Dead Daisies [9] [1]
58 - Deerhunter - Momomania [9] [1]
58 - Drexciya - Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller III [9] [1]
58 - Emika - DVA [9] [1]
58 - Everything Everything - ARC [9] [1]
58 - Goldheart Assembly - Long Distance Song Effects [9] [1]
58 - Gorguts - Coloured Sands [9] [1]
58 - GRMLN - Empire [9] [1]
58 - Jamie Lidell - Jamie Lidell [9] [1]
58 - Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady [9] [1]
58 - Moonface - Julia with Blue Jeans On [9] [1]
58 - No Consequence - IO [9] [1]
58 - Out Cold - Invasion of Love [9] [1]
58 - Stone Sour - The House of Gold and Bones Part 2 [9] [1]
58 - Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Still Smiling [9] [1]
58 - Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II [9] [1]
58 - Woodkid - The Golden Age [9] [1]
82 - Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt [8] [2]
82 - Rudimental - Home [8] [2]
82 - Ólafur Arnalds - For Now I Am Winter [8] [1]
82 - Autechre - L Event [8] [1]
82 - Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In [8] [1]
82 - Calories - Calories III [8] [1]
82 - Ceephax - Cro Magnox [8] [1]
82 - College - Secret Diary [8] [1]
82 - Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record [8] [1]
82 - Field - Cupid's Head [8] [1]
82 - Flaming Lips - The Terror [8] [1]
82 - Lady Gaga - Artpop [8] [1]
82 - Mathew E White - Big Inner [8] [1]
82 - Mikal Cronin - MCII [8] [1]
82 - Pissed Jeans - Honeys [8] [1]
82 - Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana [8] [1]
82 - Steve Mason - Monkey Minds in Devil's Time [8] [1]
82 - Temperance Movement - The Temperance Movement [8] [1]
82 - Trans - Red EP [8] [1]
82 - Vista Chino - Peace [8] [1]
82 - VV Brown - Samson & Delilah [8] [1]
103 - Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down [7] [2]
103 - Sally Shapiro - Somewhere Else [7] [2]
103 - Akkord - Akkord [7] [1]
103 - Autechre - Exai [7] [1]
103 - Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Jazz Age [7] [1]
103 - Cathedral - The Last Spire [7] [1]
103 - CFCF - Outside [7] [1]
103 - Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light [7] [1]
103 - D.O.T. - Diary [7] [1]
103 - Eels - Wonderful, Glorious [7] [1]
103 - Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust [7] [1]
103 - Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse [7] [1]
103 - Haim - Days Are Gone [7] [1]
103 - Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe [7] [1]
103 - Melt-Banana - Fetch [7] [1]
103 - Moon Wiring Club - A Fondness for Fancy Hats [7] [1]
103 - Of Montreal - Lousy With Sylvianbriar [7] [1]
103 - Om Unit - Threads [7] [1]
103 - Savages - Silence Yourself [7] [1]
103 - Veils - Time Stays, We Go [7] [1]
123 - Bill Callahan - Dream River [6] [2]
123 - Major Lazer - Free The Universe [6] [2]
123 - !!! - Thr!!!er [6] [1]
123 - Actress - Silver Cloud [6] [1]
123 - Autopsy - The Headless Ritual [6] [1]
123 - Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe [6] [1]
123 - Born of Osiris - Tomorrow We Die Alive [6] [1]
123 - Civil Wars - The Civil Wars [6] [1]
123 - David Lynch - The Big Dream [6] [1]
123 - Etherwood - Etherwood [6] [1]
123 - Follakzoid - II [6] [1]
123 - Goldfrapp - Tales of Us [6] [1]
123 - Lemuria - The Distance Is So Big [6] [1]
123 - Low - The Invisible Way [6] [1]
123 - Mr Muthafuckin' eXquire - Kismet [6] [1]
123 - Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks [6] [1]
123 - Random Rab - Release [6] [1]
123 - Still Corners - Strange Pleasure [6] [1]
123 - Tomahawk - Oddfellows [6] [1]
123 - Weeknd - Kiss Land [6] [1]
143 - Action Bronson - Blue Chips 2 [5] [1]
143 - Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here [5] [1]
143 - Bibio - Silver Wilkinson [5] [1]
143 - Exhumed - Necrocracy [5] [1]
143 - Factory Floor - Factory Floor [5] [1]
143 - Little Boots - Nocturnes [5] [1]
143 - M.I.A. - Matangi [5] [1]
143 - Machinedrum - Vapor City [5] [1]
143 - Shining - One One One [5] [1]
143 - Suede - Bloodsports [5] [1]
143 - Sworn In - The Death Card [5] [1]
143 - Tom Odell - Long Way Down [5] [1]
143 - Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse [5] [1]
156 - Clams Casino - Instrumental Mixtape 3 [4] [2]
156 - Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind [4] [2]
156 - Atoms For Peace - Amok [4] [1]
156 - Avicii - True [4] [1]
156 - Bonobo - The North Borders [4] [1]
156 - Casey Black - Lay You In The Loam [4] [1]
156 - Charli XCX - True Romance [4] [1]
156 - Denzel Curry - Nostalgic 64 [4] [1]
156 - Emancipator - Dusk to Dawn [4] [1]
156 - Future Bibles Heroes - Partygoing [4] [1]
156 - Hacride - Back To Where You've Never Been [4] [1]
156 - Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon [4] [1]
156 - Lil B - 05 Fuck 'Em [4] [1]
156 - Lil Jabba - Scales [4] [1]
156 - Machetazo - Ruin [4] [1]
156 - Manic Street Preachers - Rewind the Film [4] [1]
156 - Mercury - Miracle [4] [1]
156 - Phoenix - Bankrupt [4] [1]
156 - Quadron - Avalanche [4] [1]
156 - Roc Marciano - The Pimpire Strikes Back [4] [1]
156 - Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing [4] [1]
156 - Tyler, The Creator - Wolf [4] [1]
156 - Volcano Choir - Repave [4] [1]
179 - Forest Swords - Engravings [3] [2]
179 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito [3] [2]
179 - Bleached - Ride Your Heart [3] [1]
179 - Bochum Welt - Good Programs (To be Coloured in Yellow) [3] [1]
179 - Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Repent, Replenish, Repeat [3] [1]
179 - Darkstar - News From Nowhere [3] [1]
179 - Guido - Moods of Future Joy [3] [1]
179 - Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy [3] [1]
179 - Jay-Z - Magna Carta... Holy Grail [3] [1]
179 - Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back [3] [1]
179 - Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister [3] [1]
179 - Kromestar - Tears of Joy [3] [1]
179 - Polica - Shulamith [3] [1]
179 - Sigur Ros - Kveikur [3] [1]
179 - Thundercat - Apocalypse [3] [1]
179 - William Tyler - Impossible Truth [3] [1]
179 - Windhand - Soma [3] [1]
196 - Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy [2] [1]
196 - Au Revoir Simone - Move in Spectrums [2] [1]
196 - Chequerboard - The Unfolding [2] [1]
196 - City & Colour - The Hurry and The Harm [2] [1]
196 - Editors - The Weight of Your Love [2] [1]
196 - Fenech-Soler - Rituals [2] [1]
196 - Future of the Left - How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident [2] [1]
196 - How to Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion [2] [1]
196 - Inspectah Deck, 7L & Esoteric - Czarface [2] [1]
196 - Jai Paul - Jai Paul [2] [1]
196 - Kylesa - Ultraviolet [2] [1]
196 - Local Natives - Hummingbird [2] [1]
196 - Postiljonen - Skyer [2] [1]
196 - Roc Marciano - Marci Beaucoup [2] [1]
196 - Shout Out Louds - Optica [2] [1]
211 - Angel Haze - Dirty Gold [1] [1]
211 - Camera Obscura - Desire Lines [1] [1]
211 - Candy Claws - Ceres and Calypso [1] [1]
211 - Mavis Staples - One True Vine [1] [1]
211 - Maya Jane Coles - Comfort [1] [1]
211 - Moderat - II [1] [1]
211 - Ocean - Pelagial [1] [1]
211 - Quelle Chris - Niggas Is Men [1] [1]
211 - Sky Ferreira - Night time, my time [1] [1]
211 - Sorrow - Dreamstone [1] [1]
211 - Vatican Shadow - Remember Your Black Day [1] [1]

[Mr Do 71]

GO Boards of Canada

Julia Holter deserves to be in the top 10, IMHO.

[Wickedkitten]

Yeezus is 5 and 58

[MrPogo]

We have got a surprisingly mainstream list this year (at least based on the way I've usually never actually heard anything from the top ten and never even heard of most of them, but this year I own six and am at least familiar with the other four!).

[BeeJay]

Agreed, but I think it says more about this year's music rather than rllmuk. I've been putting together spotify playlists of all the end of year album lists that I care about and the majority have been pretty consistent. At least 6 artists in our top 10 are what I would call mainstream and 3 of the others are established acts.

[Corrogate]

Agreed, but I think it says more about this year's music rather than rllmuk. I've been putting together spotify playlists of all the end of year album lists that I care about and the majority have been pretty consistent. At least 6 artists in our top 10 are what I would call mainstream and 3 of the others are established acts.

Yeah, I haven't even checked out any new music at all this year, same for last year - these let me know what I've missed out on.

[MW_Jimmy]

Thanks as always ngchol for putting this together. I always like the rllmuk album list because although the top 10 might not be anything out of the ordinary, there is a great variety to the list as a whole (to get 220-odd different albums bears this out). Thanks all.

[ngchol]

Definitely - I've found some amazing music each year within the top 50. My first discovery from this chart is the John Grant album which would definitely have been in my top 10 had I heard it previously. (I'll fix the position of Yeezus this evening, promise!)

[BeeJay]

Definitely - I've found some amazing music each year within the top 50. My first discovery from this chart is the John Grant album which would definitely have been in my top 10 had I heard it previously. (I'll fix the position of Yeezus this evening, promise!)

I was listening to pale green ghosts today, very good album. John does like his fuck though. Almost every song it seems.

[Tetchy]

To echo Jimmy's sentiments thanks for doing this ngchol, it's always an interesting poll to digest.

[larrydavidsanger]

Indeed, cheers to ngchol!

[Rev]

I completely forgot to vote. Again. But from a quick search, 3 of my top 10 aren't on there so:

Nils Frahm - Spaces

Sin Fang - Flowers

Public Service Broadcasting - Inform - Educate - Entertain

All of which are Jolly Good. Daft Punk would have been top, Arctic Monkeys, !!! and David Bowie would have been in there somewhere.

Ta to ngchol for the list, I'll be having a good wander through it at some point.

[Pete]

I didn't vote but I'm surprised my favourite and the mercury prize winner, James Blake, go no votes at all!